Tuesday, January 31, 2017

THE HAWAIIAN ISSUE

Secretary
Gresham Evidently Does Not Anticipate Serious Trouble—Hawaiians in Washington
Take a Different View. Believe That at Least a Show of Force Will Be
Necessary—Minister Thurston's Views.

WASHINGTON, NOV. 13.—Unless he has met with
some delay, United States Minister Willis has now been in Honolulu a week, and
it is not improbable that he has carried into effect the instructions he took
with him and which have been so well kept a secret on this side of the Pacific.

If he has done so, the steamer which left
Honolulu Saturday will bring the news of the consequent events and will reach
an outlet to the rest of the world with it on next Saturday.

Whatever recourse the administration may
have determined upon to secure the restoration of Queen Liliuokalani, it is
very evident that Secretary Gresham does not expect that extreme measures will
have to be resorted to.

The course proposed to be pursued seems to be
to request the present government in the name of the United States to give way
quietly to the restoration of the queen.

The Hawaiians in this city are very firm in
their conviction that the government will refuse to yield to any such gentle
persuasion as that. They assert their earnest belief that it will require at
least a show of force to induce them to resign the reins of authority.

Congressman O'Neill of Massachusetts has
laid before Secretary Gresham an appeal from a Boston house, having large
interests in the islands, which shows that all those acquainted with the
conditions have not so hopeful a belief as to the outcome of the effort to
restore the queen. The dispatch reads as follows:

BOSTON,
Nov. 11.

Please call on proper officials and request
on behalf of your constituents holding property in Honolulu and throughout the
kingdom, that instructions be sent to the United States minister to protect the
same. We believe there is great danger of bloodshed and destruction of
property. Have telegraphed Senator Hoar these facts.

CHARLES BREWER &Co.

MINISTER
THURSTON'S VIEWS.

Blames
the Queen With Bringing About the Revolt In Hawaii.

CHICAGO, Ill., Nov. 13—Minister Lorrin A.
Thurston of Hawaii has been detained in Chicago closing up the affairs of the
Hawaiian exhibit and left for Washington. When asked to express an opinion
concerning the action of the administration in relation to Hawaii, he said:
"So far as I know that matter was fully covered last February, and I know
of no new developments since then. I do not hesitate to state that American
troops took no part in the movement, and that the revolution was incited by the
late queen and forced upon the people of Hawaii, who in self-defense took
action, terminating in a condition of affairs menacing to life and property,
and which was no longer tolerable.

"The claim of the provisional
government is that regardless of the method of how it got there, it is today
the only government in Hawaii, recognized as such at home and abroad, and that
any attempt to forcibly overturn it by a foreign power is in the nature of war
against a friendly government, which, as I understand it, requires the consent
of congress. I am not informed that the president intends to arrogate any such
power to himself and have no right to assume it. The monarchy cannot be
restored except through this force from without, and if that supporting force
is withdrawn it will be forthwith overthrown. There will be no safety for those
who have supported the provisional government if the queen is restored, and if
the attempt is made I fear that the results will be of the greatest character.
I believe that bloodshed will be the inevitable results in which Americans,
American property and agricultural interests will be the greatest
sufferers."

Has Mr.
Thurston Turned Back?

WASHINGTON, NOV. 13.—L. A. Thurston,
Hawaiian minister has not arrived in Washington and it is now believed that he
has been speeding across the country to take the next steamer for Honolulu.

Nearing
Their Journey's End.

LOCKPORT, N. Y., Nov. 13.—Frank Falk and his
dog "Guess" passed through this city on their pedestrian tour from
California to New York. They started June 26, and are due in New York Dec. 26,
on a wager of $10,000. Both showed signs of fatigue, but Falk has pluck and
says he can make 20 miles a day for the remainder of the journey.

PAGE
TWO—EDITORIALS.

The Most
Important Result.

The Philadelphia Press is of the opinion
that the moat important and far reaching result of the tidal wave in New York
has attracted the least notice, either during the campaign or in the election
returns. The voters of New York state
decided some time ago on a light vote, but by a decided majority, to have a constitutional
convention. The act originally passed by the legislature provided for the
election of the convention last February. The delegates were to be elected, one
to each of the 128 assembly districts of the state and 38 at large, these being
divided between the parties—16 Republicans, 16 Democratic, and 6 Labor or
Prohibitionists.

This equitable division of a non-partisan
body, however, failed to satisfy the Democratic machine when it found itself in
control of all branches of the state government at Albany. New York had been
Democratic for ten years. The Federal
patronage was about to become Democratic. A Democratic majority in New York
state seemed certain. The February election was abandoned. Minority
representation was struck out of the new measure. Instead of dividing the
delegates-at-large between the three parties, under a plan for minority representation,
the Democrats decided on having thirty-two delegates-at-large elected on a
single ticket. The remaining delegates were to be chosen, four in each of the
thirty-two senatorial districts. This partisan attempt to pack an important body
looked a great deal safer last February when the bill was passed than it proved
to be last week, Tuesday, when the people voted. If the election had been held
last February a Democratic majority in the convention would have been certain.
If the election had been held on the plan first proposed the Republicans would
have had a majority over all of but three or four, if they had secured this
preponderance. As it is, the Republican majority is about twenty-five or
thirty.

No phase of the election has probably given
Boss Croker and Boss McLaughlin more serious alarm. The power and plunder of
the New York and Brooklyn city rings could be very seriously curbed by a stringent
state constitution. If such a constitution is wisely drawn, it will have every
prospect of being adopted at the polls. For a decade no legislation adverse to
these great rings has been passed at Albany. None was likely to be. A
constitutional convention would be a different body, even if it were
Democratic. A Republican constitutional convention will be a body with such an
opportunity to give the cities of New York good government as has not been
offered in New York state for half a century, for the last constitutional
convention was a disappointing body. The one elected last week, Tuesday, ought
to be able to sweep away a host of abuses. Fortunately, also, as no one
expected the Republican delegates-at-large to be chosen, the selection of men
as a general rule was far superior to a ticket chosen when a swarm of
politicians are seeking places.

A Republican plurality of over 130,000 in
Pennsylvania and one over 100,000 for Bartlett in this state are almost enough
to stagger belief. But they are cold facts—and very cold for the defeated
parties.

Hon. David B. Hill seems in earnest about
reforming the poky ways of the United States senate. He has already introduced
into that venerable body the amendment to the rules which raised such a storm
in the house two years ago—the one
providing that when a member is in the chamber in plain sight he shall be
counted as present whether he answers to his name at roll call or not.

BINGHAMTON
VS. CORTLAND.

The Home
Team Defeated by Binghamton to the Tune of 6 to 0.

All who went to the fair grounds Saturday
afternoon had the pleasure of witnessing one of the closest and most intensely
exciting games of football between teams from secondary schools played thus far
this season. The previous Saturday the Binghamtons were defeated on their home
grounds by the Normals, and they came to Cortland Saturday determined to
"lay out" the Normals on their home grounds.

The Binghamton team was strengthened from
the previous week and Monroe was substituted for Brown as left guard. The teams
lined up as follows:

BINGHAMTONSNORMALS

MyrickLeft end Miner

CanonLeft tackleHubbard

NortonLeft
guardMonroe

WilburCenterWelch

TurnerRight
guardO'Day

SmithRight
tackleHarkness

SheridanRight endLampher

WeedQuarter
backFralick

FlemingRight half
backMills

Ingraham Left half backLain

DoniganFull backRobertson

Binghamton won the toss and took the ball,
giving the Normals the west goal. The ball was put in play by a Harvard wedge,
but a fine tackle by Miner brought the ball to the ground with only three
[yards] to Binghamton's credit. By a series of rushes through the centre the
ball was brought to the Normals' forty yard line. Here by a failure to advance
the ball five yards on three downs, the ball was given to the Normals. The ball
was passed to Lain for a try around the end, but a fumble prevented any gain.
It was next passed to Mills, who gained two yards. But, on failure to advance
it the necessary five yards, it was given to Binghamton. A series of rushes
carried it to the Normals' 30 yards line, where the ball again came into
possession of the Normals. A fumble by Mills resulted in a gain of three yards
for Binghamton, but on the next down Mills redeemed himself by one of the
finest runs during the game, advancing the ball around the end for fully twenty
yards. Harkness followed with a further gain of ten yards, landing the ball on
Binghamton's side of the center line. From this time on with the exception of
about three minutes the playing was all done in Binghamton's territory.

Following Harkness' run Monroe went through
the center for ten yards' gain. For the next fifteen minutes the struggle was
close, the ball being repeatedly exchanged because of failure to make the
necessary advance. In one of the downs Donigan was thrown heavily and, a number
falling upon him, he was obliged to retire from the game, but pluckily returned
at the beginning of the second half. Finally Welch secured the ball and carried
it across Binghamton's 25 yard line, when time was called. Time of first half,
45 minutes. Score, 0 to 0.

After ten minutes intermission the ball was
put in play by the Normals, Robertson punting it to Binghamton's ten yard line.
Donigin got the ball and reached the 25 yard line before he was thrown. The
ball soon went to the Normals on downs and was carried five yards further into
Binghamton's territory. A failure to advance it a second five yards gave the
ball to Binghamton. Then it was passed to Ingraham, who made a magnificent run
around the end and, so fine was the Binghamton interference, that he succeeded in
passing all the Normals and secured a touch down immediately behind the goal
posts. The ball was brought out and a goal was kicked by Donigan.

The ball was put in play by the Normals,
Robertson punting it to Binghamton's fifteen-yard line, Donigan took the ball
and advanced it to the twenty-yard line, when he met Landpher and went down.
The Normals were playing a hard game and Binghamton could not get the ball
farther from their goal posts. The ball soon went to the Normals, who carried
it across Binghamton's ten-yard line, but lost it on downs. The ball was passed
to Donigan, who punted, but little gain was made, the ball going to the
Normals. The Normals rushed within two yards of the goal line. The next down
brought it within a yard of the line. The Binghamtons then adopted dilatory
tactics and thus some time was lost that ought to have been taken out. The ball
was passed to Mills for a run around the end, but was stopped a yard from the
line and time was called. Length of second half, 30 minutes. Score, 6 to 0, in
favor of Binghamton. Referee, Mr. Page, half back on Weslyan's team of last
year. Umpire, Prof. J. E. Banta.

The Binghamton Republican of this morning begins its excellent description of the
game as follows: "The team left the city on the morning train and after spending
a few hours visiting with the Normal girls, and the boys say there are many
pretty girls in Cortland, they lined up on the campus and after a few minutes'
practice began the game."

The Republican also says: "Cortland's team
work was envied even by the winners."

MARATHON
DEPARTMENT.

Mr. Ray Baum of this place, but for the past
few years at Cornell university at Ithaca, has been awarded the Andrew D. White
scholarship in the university. He is to be congratulated.

Hon. and Mrs. James Tripp returned from the
World's Fair, having spent a week there.

Mrs. Bowdish of Detroit, Mich., who has been
visiting her aunt at Oxford, returned to her sister's, Mrs. Watrous, in Homer
on Thursday afternoon.

On Friday afternoon the Syracuse Chapter,
No. 70, of the Eastern Star came and organized a chapter of the Eastern Star
here. The following officers were elected:

M. W. G. Matron—Elizabeth Raymond.

W. Patron—Herbert Greenland.

R.W. Asso. G. Conductress of Rochester—Sophia
Lighthense.

Asso. Matron—Julia St. John.

Asso. Conductress—Carrie Van Arsdale.

Conductress—Alice Tallman.

Treasurer—Myra Relyea.

Secretary—Nellie Church.

Ada—Mary Cooper.

Ruth—Lydia Fields.

Esther—Ella Whipple.

Martha—Carrie Willard.

Electa—Delia Ferris.

Warden—Mrs. Finn.

Matron—Mrs. Gaylord and Mrs. Eva Williams.

Mrs. Stella Whitmore and Mrs. Hubbard of
Otsmingo Chapter No. 14 of Binghamton were present. They met in the Masonic
lodge room and Mrs. Hattie E.
Wilson was chosen matron. There were nearly 30 members, besides a large number
of the Masons who took the obligation. After the organization of the chapter by
the officers of Syracuse chapter the work was exemplified.

They adjourned to Hotel Lynde, where a large
banquet was given by the master masons of Marathon lodge, the dining-room being
packed, while a large number had to wait for second table. H. E. Wilson acted
as toastmaster.

The Chapter starts off with a large number and
no doubt will become a large and strong order and we wish them every success.
The Syracuse people were entertained at Hotel Lynde by the Masonic lodge and
returned to their homes Saturday morning. The banquet lasted till 1 o'clock.

Mrs. A. C. Robacher returned from New York
Wednesday afternoon. She brought with her about 50 large chrysanthemums which
were on exhibition at the flower show at New York by T. H. Spaulding of Orange,
N. J., who had a very fine exhibit there. There were many different varieties
and colors. On Friday evening they were on exhibition at the Masonic lodge room
and admired by all.

FLYING
MACHINES.

Inventor
Edison Says That the Problem is Sure to Be Solved.

Mr. Edison laughed heartily when informed that
Chicago was the hotbed of the world for airship inventors. "I know
it," he said. "They haven't found the secret yet, but they will some
day. It will come."

"Have you ever entered the airship field
yourself?" asked the reporter.

"Yes, indeed, I have. I have tried a number
of devices, but they haven't worked. Once I placed an aerial motor on a pair of
Fairbanks scales and set it going. It lightened the scales, but it didn't
fly." And the wizard laughed at the recollection.

"Another time I rigged up an umbrella-like
disk of shutters and connected it with a rapid piston in a perpendicular
cylinder. These shutters would open and shut. If I could have gotten sufficient
speed, say a mile a second, the inertia or resistance of the air would have
been as great as steel, and the quick operation of these shutters would have driven
the machine upward, but I couldn't get the speed. I believe that before the
airship men succeed they will have to do away with the buoyancy chamber. But
the secret will come out some day, I am sure."

Like the world at large, which ridiculed the
first locomotive, the first telephone and almost every great innovation, Edison
takes a humorous view of all his experiments and seemingly enjoys a failure.
"I have tried all kinds of plans to explain psychical force," he said,
with a smile. "We experimented on hypnotism by placing a man's head in an
immense magnetic plane, but it didn't work. We tried telepathy, too, but
without success."

"Have you any more wonders like the phonograph
in the experimental stage?"

"No, nothing but the kinograph, which is
now almost perfect. It reproduces, by a rapid succession of small photographs, every
motion of an object. It was very hard to get the exact grimaces of the face or
the clear workings of a man's fingers playing the piano, but we perfected it at
last. I was very anxious to have one on exhibition at the fair, but we did not
have it finished in time."—Chicago Inter
Ocean.

Lewis W. Wilkens, the "Kansas Giant."

HOMER
DEPARTMENT.

Rev. E. C. Olney delivered an address yesterday
morning upon the World's Fair. The
address was not descriptive, but consisted of the impressions and lessons which
he had gained from the great Exposition. The address was very interesting and
the congregation who listened to it was unusually large.

Mrs. Amelia Quinton, president of the
American Indian association of Philadelphia,
was in town several days last week visiting relatives. She went to Ithaca
Saturday, where she addressed a meeting in the interests of the Indian.

Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Carmen spent Sunday at
their home in Binghamton.

Dr. and Mrs. W. H. Leonard of Tully were in
town Saturday.

Wilkens, the Kansas giant, will be on exhibition
this afternoon and evening at Keator opera house. This man is a bona-fide
giant. He is over eight feet tall and weighs 365 pounds. The admission is only
ten cents in the afternoon and fifteen cents in the evening.

Thursday of last week Mrs. Jay D. Brink
slipped on a frosty plank in the yard at her home and fell, spraining her arm.
The sprain is very painful, but the patient is doing well, and it is hoped will
soon be able to use her arm.

Mrs. Jennie Youngs of Moravia is the guest
of her sister, Mrs. D. N. Miller.

Lewis Rood was brought before Justice Kingsbury
Saturday on a complaint entered by Veterinary Surgeon R. C. Block. He was
charged with cruelly beating his horses. He pleaded guilty and Justice
Kingsbury sentenced him to thirty days in the county jail. He was warned by the
justice that if he came before him again on such a complaint he would get the
full extent of the law.

Yesterday afternoon a man entered the house
of Hosea Sprague on Clinton-st. He came in at the dining-room door, where Mr.
and Mrs. Sprague and their housekeeper, Mrs. Smith, were sitting. Mrs. Sprague
asked him what he wanted, but he made no reply and passed through into the bedroom
adjoining. The ladies were very much frightened and ran to the house of Mrs. Crofoot
next door, where Mr. Wm. Foster and another gentleman were dining. When these gentlemen
arrived at the Sprague house the man had gone, but they followed and caught
him. He was taken to the police station, where he was locked up. The man is a stranger
who is in town temporarily, working on the academy building. He was brought
before Justice Kingsbury this morning and pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct.
He was fined five dollars and discharged. The man claims that he was drunk and
didn't know where he was. He claims also that he was not attempting a robbery,
and his story is undoubtedly the truth.

The large stained-glass windows are being
put in place in the new Baptist church. The large one in the front is a memorial
window in memory of Rev. Alfred Bennett and wife, Rev. Cephas Bennett and wife,
Deacon Asa Bennett and wife and their son, Asa Bennett. The window is a large
semi-circle in shape, about 18 feet in diameter at the bottom. The colors are
rich and harmonize beautifully. In one panel is a dove and in the corresponding
panel at the other side is an open Bible. The lower center panel contains the
following inscription: "In memory of Rev. Alfred Bennett, 1780-1851, first
pastor of this church, a faithful minister of Jesus Christ, and his wife, Rhoda Grow
Bennett, 1780-1874." The lower right hand panel contains this inscription:
"In memory of Rev. Cephas Bennett, 1804-1885, and his wife, Stella Kneeland
Bennett, 1808-1891, for 55 and 60 years missionaries to Burmah.'' The inscription
on the lower left hand panel is: "In memory of Deacon Asa Bennett, 1778-1825,
and his wife, Chloe Grow Bennett, 1773-1862, and their son, Asa Bennett,
appointed to a mission to Burmah."

A party of over a dozen young ladies and
gentlemen of Homer enjoyed the invigorating air and fine roads yesterday afternoon
by a five-mile tramp. They took the hill road over to Cortland, entering that
village on Clinton-ave, and returned home by the direct road.

The remains of Andrew P. Henderson of
Phoenix, N. Y., formerly of Homer, who died Sunday morning, will be brought
here Tuesday at 10 o'clock A. M, The funeral will be held at the M. E. church
in this village at that hour, and after the services the body will be taken to
Cortland Rural cemetery for burial.